unmarked cemetery, human remains, multidisciplinary (Other Keyword)
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Funerary Hardware in 18th and 19th Century Philadelphia: What Can Be Used as an Indication of Wealth from the Arch Street Site? (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (ca. 1702-1859) was excavated in 2017. Almost 500 remains and associated material culture highlight the lives of Philadelphia’s early citizens during pre and post-colonial eras. Individual graves offer multiple lines of evidence from which to...